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“The way you deal with the threat to democracy,” Corbyn said, “is not by reducing democracy – it’s by dealing with the threat.”

And then there's the reason the prime minister called this so-called "snap election:" To give her a stronger hand in Brussels when she's negotiating Britain's exit from the European Union, or "Brexit."

“She positioned herself as strong and stable,” Nelson told Fox News. “But her behavior is not consistent with that description.”

President Trump has even become a factor in this campaign. Tweets from Trump knocking comments from London Mayor Saddiq Khan following the terror attacks caused controversy among Corbyn and other Labour figures.

May refrained from firing back at Trump, analysts say, because she needs the U.S. after the UK's EU departure.

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Nelson said a win by Corbyn’s Labour party would mean the U.S. would be “minus-1 ally.”

At a time when U.S. relations with Europe are shaky, the White House is no doubt hoping May’s Conservative Party will make it through.

Greg Palkot currently serves as a London-based senior foreign affairs correspondent for Fox News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in 1998 as a correspondent. Follow him on Twitter@GregPalkot.